10-16-2011, 02:36 PM
I voted BC / AD.
I'm not remotely religious but it has always been a useful historical reference point.
I'm quite happy to see BCE / CE applied as well.
We live in the western world and this makes sense to us. Of course I recognise that other cultures (Islam/China/Judaism etc.) see the world entirely differently and that is fine.
But I'm a simple man and happy with the notion that the events of say (first) Thermopylai occured 480 years before 'somebody' appeared, who none of the people concerned at that particular earlier event could possibly have known, predicted or cared about.
I'm not remotely religious but it has always been a useful historical reference point.
I'm quite happy to see BCE / CE applied as well.
We live in the western world and this makes sense to us. Of course I recognise that other cultures (Islam/China/Judaism etc.) see the world entirely differently and that is fine.
But I'm a simple man and happy with the notion that the events of say (first) Thermopylai occured 480 years before 'somebody' appeared, who none of the people concerned at that particular earlier event could possibly have known, predicted or cared about.
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